Career Outcomes and Trajectories of Recent Graduates
- 2023-2024
Name Dissertation Title Dissertation Advisor Current Position Daniel McClymonds What Benefactors Want: Social Movement Patronage in Pittsburgh’s 20th century Redevelopment Joshua Bloom Visiting Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh Christina Ong A Place of Our Own: The Basement Workshop and the Making of Asian America Joshua Bloom Postdoctoral Fellow, with possible conversion to the tenure track, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Chie Togami Funding Climate Action: New Grassroots Social Movements, Resource Mobilization, and the Role of Philanthropic Patronage Suzanne Staggenborg Assistant Professor, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
(Tenure track)- 2022-2023
Name Dissertation Title Dissertation Advisor Current Position Daniel Burridge Reinventing the Left(s) in El Salvador and Nicaragua: Revolutionary Legacies, Movement-State Negotiations, and Competing Projects of Governance John Markoff Research Scientist, University of North Carolina, Greensboro Alannah Caisey Black Women's Liberatory Pedagogies: Towards a Transformative Theory and Praxis Melanie Hughes Postdoctoral Fellow, National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago - 2021-2022
- 2020-2021
Name Dissertation Title Dissertation Advisor Current Position Suzanne Petrusic Srebrenica as Discourse: An Ethnography of Power Mohammed Bamyeh Director - Research, Gartner Candice Robinson For the Movement: An Ethnography of the National Urban League, the Black Middle Class, and Black Movement Communities Suzanne Staggenborg Assistant Professor Of Sociology, University of North Carolina Wilmington (Tenure track) Caitlin Schroering The Global Economy, Resource Conflicts, and Transnational Social Movements: Dimensions of Resistance to Water Privatization Jackie Smith, Suzanne Staggenborg Assistant Professor of Sociology at University of North Carolina, Charlotte (Tenure track) - 2019-2020
Name Dissertation Title Dissertation Advisor Current Position Benjamin Case When Yelling Isn't Good Enough: Riots and Non-Nonviolent Civil Resistance John Markoff Resistance Studies Affiliate, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Alana Fields “Coaching Boys Into Men”: Exploring Implementation, Evaluation, and Content of a Gender-Transformative Violence Prevention Program Lisa Brush Post-Doctoral Associate, University of Pittsburgh Corinne Ogrodnik Contentious Coalitions, Movement Divisions, and Strategic Action Fields. Factors Motivating and Unlikely Alliance of Environmental Organizations and Gas Companies. Suzanne Staggenborg Managing Director, Maitri Holdings, LLC - 2018-2019
Name Dissertation Title Dissertation Advisor Current Position Hatem Hassan Thugs in Revolution: Transforming the Criminal Body amidst Political Transition in Egypt Mohammed Bamyeh Education Researcher for BloomBoard Samantha Plummer Three Essays on Poverty, Social Services, and Advice-Giving Lisa Brush Post-Doctoral Researcher at Columbia University - 2017-2018
- 2016-2017
Name Dissertation Title Dissertation Advisor Current Position Mehr Latif Re-Envisioning Kinship and the State in Pakistan Kathleen Blee and Mohammed Bamyeh Assistant Professor at UMass Boston Mohammad Golam Nabi Mozumder The Body, Subjectivity, and Sociality: Fakir Lalon Shah and His Followers in Contemporary Bangladesh Mohammed Bamyeh Research Associate at the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies Jeffrey Tienes Keeping it "Real": Making a Career in Pittsburgh's Rap Music Scene Lisa Brush Visiting Instructor at Clarion University of Pennsylvania - 2015-2016
- 2014-2015
Name Dissertation Title Dissertation Advisor Current Position Daniel Nunez Violence and the State in Postwar Guatemala John Markoff Researcher at Dialogos Maria Dillard Measuring the Social-Ecological Resilience of Coastal and Small Island Communities to Inform Policy, Planning, and Practice John Marx and Suzanne Staggenborg Acting Director of Disaster and Failure Studies at National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Xi Zhang The Effects of Internal Migration on Regional Inequality in China: Evidence from Panel Data Analysis Vijai Singh Assistant Director of Data Science, Institutional Research and Decision Support at the University of California Nichole Bayliss Where You Live Does Matter: The Impact of Racial Residential Segregation on Racial Disparities in Cancer Incidence and Morality in Northeastern and Southern US Counties, 2005-2009 John Marx and Suzanne Staggenborg Associate Professor and Program Coordinator for Psychology at Chatham University - 2013-2014
Name Dissertation Title Dissertation Advisor Current Position Kimberly Creasap Sweden Ends Here? Social Movement Scenes and the Right to the City Kathleen Blee Director, Hagen Center for Civic and Urban Engagement at Wittenberg University Jane Walsh Our Struggles Are Not the Same, but They Converge: Farmworkers, Allies, and the Fair Food Movement John Markoff Assistant Professor of Sociology at PennWest Clarion Amy McDowell Rebellious Religion: Christian Hardcore and Muslim 'Taqwacore' Punk Rock Kathleen Blee Assistant Professor of Sociology at University of Mississippi - 2012-2013
Name Dissertation Title Dissertation Advisor Current Position Selman Yilmaz State, Politics, and Religion: Effects of Political and Social Change on the Relationship between State and Religion in Turkey, 2002-2012 Mohammed Bamyeh Assistant Professor at Ankara University Kelsy Burke God, Sex, and the Internet: The Faithful, Virtual, and Sexual Lives of Contemporary Evangelicial Christians Kathleen Blee Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln - 2011-2012
Name Dissertation Title Dissertation Advisor Current Position Piotr Konieczny The Impact of Modern Information and Communication Technologies on Social Movements John Markoff Associate Professor of Informational Sociology at the University of Hanyang Veronica Szabo Youth and Politics in Communist Romania, 1980-1989 John Markoff Licensed Realtor at RE/MAX Select Realty Yolanda Hernandez Narratives of Identity and Motherhood among Latin American Migrant Women Mohammed Bamyeh Professor at Universidad Loyola Andalucia Kathleen Bulger Gray Negotiating Race Talk: How Whites Hide Racial Privilege and Structural Inequality Kathleen Blee Assistant Academic Dean at St. Francis College Jared Coopersmith Scientific Controversies, Boundary Disputes, and Mobilization: The Intelligent Design Movement Network Pat Doriean and Akiko Hashimoto Senior Statistician at Mathematica Policy Research - 2010-2011
Name Dissertation Title Dissertation Advisor Current Position Amy Kubichek The Effects of Economic Development, Urbanization, Women’s Rights Programs, Women’s Microcredit Programs, and Women’s Market-Oriented Programs on Gender Inequality in India Lisa Brush Research Associate at the Lewis Center for Church Leadership of Wesley Theological Seminary Kai Heidemann Giving Voice to Language: Basque Language Activism and the Politics of Education Reform in France, 1969-1994 Akiko Hashimoto Assistant Professor at Maastricht University - 2009-2010
Name Dissertation Title Dissertation Advisor Current Position Sambriddhi Kharel The Dialectics of Identity and Resistance among Dalits in Nepal Cecilia Green Board of Directors, Samarpan Academy, Institute of Crisis Management Studies (Nepal) - 2008-2009
Name Dissertation Title Dissertation Advisor Current Position Margaret Kerr Autism Spectrum Disorders and Vaccines: The Making of a Health Social Movement John Marx and John Markoff Author and Instructor, Robert Morris University Maria Jose Alvarez-Rivadulla Contentious Urbanization from Below: Land Squatting in Montevideo, Uruguay John Markoff Associate Professor of Sociology at Universidad de los Andes Melissa Swauger Whatever Her Little Heart Desires: How Class and Race Influence Adolescent Girls Perceptions of the Future Kathleen Blee Associate Professor at Indiana University of Pennsylvania - 2007-2008
Name Dissertation Title Dissertation Advisor Current Position Monica Solinas Saunders Adolescent Antisocial Behavior and Adult Intimate Partner Violence Phyllis Coontz Associate Professor in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs and Adjunct Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Indiana University Northwest Lisa Huebner-Ruchti Professional Intimacy: An Ethnography of Care in Hospital Nursing Kathleen Blee Associate Professor in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at West Chester University - 2006-2007